India tops world in pollution deaths in 2015

Friday, 20 October 2017Pollution killed 25 lakh Indians — the highest in the world — in 2015, of whom more than 18 lakh lives were snuffed out by foul air alone, a global panel of public health experts have said in their latest report.

Most of these deaths were caused by heart disease, stroke, lung cancer and chronic obstructive...

Exposure to environmental pollution is deadly, it is one of the leading causes of death around the world. A major study from the Lancet medical journal was released Thursday showing that One out of every six premature deaths in the world in 2015 — about 9 million people — could be attributed to...